Bad Beat
Date: Sat, Jun 7, 2008 Professional
What exactly is a bad beat? Technically, any time you are ahead in a hand and your opponent comes from behind to beat you, well technically that is a bad beat. But there is more to a bad beat than that. Let’s say you have KK and your opponent has JJ and the flop comes J84. [...]
Tilt
Date: Thu, Jun 5, 2008 Professional
Tilt is a term for a state of mental confusion or frustration in which a poker player knowingly adopts a sub-optimal, over-aggressive strategy. [Wikipedia] Placing an opponent on tilt or dealing with being on tilt oneself is a very important aspect of poker. Tilt is a relatively frequent occurrence, due to frustration, animosity between players, or [...]
Tournament Rules #36
Date: Tue, Jun 3, 2008 Professional
In our continuing look at the Tournament Director’s Association rules, we come to one of the more general rules, this one on Poker Etiquette. TDA Rule #36: Etiquette Violations “Repeated etiquette violations will result in penalties. Examples include unnecessarily touching other players cards or chips, delay of the game, and excessive chatter. Players are required [...]
Rainbow Flop
Date: Sun, Jun 1, 2008 Professional
When the flop comes with three different suits, it is called a rainbow flop. You may hear the tournament director call out a flop: “King, Ten, Four, Rainbow.” This means the K104 were of different suits and the odds of a flush are greatly diminished. To make a flush after a rainbow flop, you [...]
Continuation Bet
Date: Fri, May 30, 2008 Professional
We spoke in our last post about the importance of being able to play after a flop has missed your hand. One of the most recognized “post-flop” strategies is the continuation bet. The continuation bet is one that continues your pre-flop aggression, which generally means you raised before the flop and are going [...]
When the Flop Misses You
Date: Wed, May 28, 2008 Professional
Playing poker with a big hand is fun, you can win a pile of chips, a big hand is exciting BUT it doesn’t happen very often. In fact, in most poker games you will fold many more hands than you play and when you do play, you will miss hitting the flop most of [...]
Min. Raise
Date: Mon, May 26, 2008 Professional
In every form of poker there is a minimum amount you must bet in order to raise the pot, how the minimum is calculate changes from game to game but every form of poker has a minimum raise. Perhaps even more controversial then limping into a pot is just making the minimum raise or “Min. [...]
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